Is there no place like home? home-court advantage and home win percentage vary according to team sex and ability in Spanish basketball

Enrique Alonso Pérez-Chao, Raúl Nieto-Acevedo, Aaron T. Scanlan, Adrián Lopez-García, Alberto Lorenzo and Miguel Ángel Gómez

International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 2024, vol. 24, issue 5, 510-517

Abstract: To compare the extent of home-court advantage (HA) and home win percentage (HW) based on sex and team ability in Spanish basketball leagues. Data from the first divisions of male and female basketball over 12 seasons (2010-2023) were analyzed. HA (%) was calculated as (total home wins/total wins) * 100 and HW (%) as (total home wins/total home games) * 100. Teams were categorized into higher-and lower-ability based on their season win percentage using cluster analyses. Mann-Whitney test was used to compare HA and HW between sexes and team ability clusters. Results showed that males exhibited higher HA and HW compared to females (p

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/24748668.2024.2325842

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